820 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. BE® 6 
^nxrs of % tXIcrk, 
HOMK NEWS. 
Saturday, November 29. 
A big lake has been discovered between Hud¬ 
son’s Bay and the Labrador roast—bigger 
than Ontario and Erie together. The sur¬ 
rounding country is said to be adapted to 
agricultural purposes The aju-x of the 
Washington Monument will be of aluminum, 
aDd the block has already been cast. It is 
about five inches square by seven high, and is 
the largest aluminum casting ever made. 
Lightning rods will run from this to the 
ground . Portland, Oregon, now ranks 
fifth among the commercial cities of this 
country, and among the cities which she out¬ 
ranks is Philadelphia .The lumber cut 
by Minneapolis mills in the season just ended, 
amounted to 8WI.724.ODD feet, with 87,617,000 
shingles and 72,957,000 lath; au increase of 
27.U3t.000 feet of lumber and 12,771,000 lath, 
and a decrease of 2,428.000 shingles, as com¬ 
pared with the season of 1883 .The next 
House of Representatives will consist of 184 
Democrats and 141 Republicans. Mr. Speaker 
Carlisle is already assured of his re-election, 
_Considerable alarm prevails among the 
white people residing in the Indian Territory 
touching the net,Ion of the Cherokee Legisla¬ 
ture, which recently passed a bill excluding 
all white persons from the Territory. 
From a careful reckoning, it appears that in 
the Di-trict of Columbia there are 12,719 
civilian employees of the Government, of 
whom 5,840 come under the operations of the 
Civil Service Law. The others receive more 
than $1,800, or less than the $900 a year, or 
have.not been included under the reform act. 
The number of appointments in each depart¬ 
ment is as follows: State, 77; Justice, 184; 
Agriculture, 182; Navy. 340; Post-Office. 567; 
War. 1.924; Interior. 8.481; Treasury, 8,596.... 
The Alabama Legislature has re-elected James 
L. Pugh to the United Slates Senate. Tuesday 
...Coal lands in the 
valley of the Sabinas, Mexico, valued at about 
one million dollars and belonging to several 
Americans, have been seized by the Mexican 
author ities. The courts decided the lands be¬ 
longed to the wife of a Mexican banker, al¬ 
though the Americans held perfected titles..,. 
... .The Supreme Court of Iowa has informed 
a young wife who married a mun knowing 
him to be intemperate, and thou applied for a 
divorce on the ground that he is a con finned 
drunkard, that she voluntarily chose a drunk 
ard for a husband and should discharge the 
duties of a drunkard’s wife. “His failure to 
keep a pledge of reformation, made before mar¬ 
riage,” says the court “doe* not justify vou in 
deserting him. Having knowingly married 
a drunkard, you must make yourself content 
with the sacred relationship.”.Malig¬ 
nant typhoid fever is raging in Kansas peni¬ 
tentiary, Leavenworth, where 800 prisoners 
are confined. Sixty are sick aud ten have 
died. Poor ventilation is the supposed eause. 
Prince Albert. Victor, the eldest son of the 
PriucO of W ales and the future Kiug of Eng¬ 
land, is to make n tour of the United States 
and Canada next year. He will be 21 years 
of age on the 8th of January next.. 
Joseph E Brown was re-elected to the United 
States Senate from Georgia .A Colored 
Natioual Convention is culled to convene in 
New Orleaus December 17, to consider the 
situation of the colored people under the 
Democratic party .Belva Lockwood 
says if the votes east for her in the various 
States do not. appear in the official returns, 
she will make trouble for the boards of can¬ 
vassers.The House of Representatives 
of Vermont refused to increase the Governor’s 
meagre salary to $2,000, but added $500 to the 
present amount, and made it $1,500. 
The only remaining liquor saloon in Bladens- 
burg, O, was wrecked by Prohibitionists 
Saturday night. The proprietor was struck 
bv a stone and died from his injuries. 
The drought is the cause of a general alarm 
in the vicinity of Nashua, N. H. The sewer¬ 
age is affected aud scarlet fever prevails The 
schools have been closed .In South¬ 
western Virginia aud Eastern Kentucky, a 
regular pestilence is raging, due to the us * of 
unwholesome water, necessitated by the 
drought that has prevailed for so long a time 
in that section .Or the 703 iron furnaces 
in America, 469 are lying idle.The 
value of taxable property in Tennessee is now 
$226,844,184, an increase of $4,206,311 over 
last year. The rate of taxation for State 
purposes is80 cents on $100.“Old 
Eliza,” a pauper, died iu Toronto, Monday, 
and $4,000 were found in a box she possessed 
She had been supported by charity for 32 
years. Her surname was unknown. 
Six hundred aud ninety women voted at a 
recent election iu Seattle, VV. T. 
.There are over 407,000 persons em¬ 
ployed by .railway companies in.tbis country, 
not includ’.ng the officer®, clerks or book-keep¬ 
ers. Tbe wages received, according to the 
census of 1880, average $87 50 for all clashes 
_In Hamilton. Ontario. Professor Wiggins, 
tbe weather crank, ha* joined the Salvation 
Army, and is going thro’ the country calling 
on people to repent ...... John Splan, the 
famous driver, is sure that Johnston, the pacer, 
under best conditions, can pace a mile in t wo 
minutes. He has paced quarters in less 
than 30 seconds . Great consternation 
exists in Nova Scotia at the late Spanlsh- 
American treaty. If it is confirmed, the fish¬ 
ery business—the chief industry in the mara 
time Canadian Provinces—will be greatly 
injured, as American fl-bermen being able to 
import, tbtir goods duty free into Cuba and 
Porto Rico, w ill drive the Canadians out of 
those markets. Porto Rico now takes 150,000 
quintals a year, besides largo quantities of 
pickled fi<b. and Cuba about half that quan¬ 
tity of dry fish. We also take a large amount, 
but our reciprocity treaty with the Dominion 
with regard to fi-h will terminate next year, 
and there is, at present, no prospects of its 
reuewnl Tbe Canadian vessels, too. now em¬ 
ployed in the trade with Cuba and Porto 
Rico, must find other employment, as Ameri¬ 
can vessels, being on tbe same footing as 
Spanish, will bo able to do the business at 
much lower rates. An agltatiou for anexu- 
tion to the United States is reported to tie 
underway in the Canadian nmratimo Proven 
ces .The deputation appointed by tbo 
Montreal Carnival Committee to wait upon 
President-elect Cleveland and tender him an 
invitation to attend the carnival will start for 
Albany next week. Krasins Wiman, of Now 
York, will be asked to form one of the depu¬ 
tation The Ice Palace this your will cost 
$6,000—double the cost of last year’s one. 
.... The decision of the Ohio Supreme Court 
reversing the Scott law is having the legiti¬ 
mate effect. Within scarcely 30 days after 
tbe decision thousands of gin-mills and dog¬ 
geries have sprung into existence all over the 
Buckeye State. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, December 29. 
Across the Atlantic nothing of general in¬ 
terest has of late occurred in Ireland Mani¬ 
festations of ill-will to England continue, of 
course; but that is not news. Occasional 
agrarian “outrages” ulso take place, such us 
an attempt made last. Thursday night to blow 
up with dynamite the residence of a Mr. 
Hussey, near Tralee, County Limerick. All 
tbe members of the family were at home at 
the time, hut nobody was injured. Police 
were stationed in huts near tbe house; but 
they have caught nobody, nor is there any 
clue to tbe perpetrators. The buildiug was 
severely damaged. Hussey is one of tbe lar¬ 
gest land agents in the county, and is exceed¬ 
ingly unpopular. Shrewd men think that Ire¬ 
land will have a Parliament of her own with¬ 
in five years—but England seldom relaxes 
her hold on a subject people. 
... In England, a compromise has been ef¬ 
fected between the Lords and the Liberals 
with regard to the Franchise and Distribution 
Bills, or rather Gladstone has backed down. 
He declared over and over again in Parlia¬ 
ment. and out, that, no Distribution Bill should 
be introduced until the passage of tbe Fran¬ 
chise Bill by the Lords; but now he has con¬ 
sented to introduce the Distribution Bill next 
week, before the pas'age of the Franchise Bid. 
and has consulted Lord Salisbury, the Con 
servative leader, as to the provisions of the 
measure. The Radicals, who wished to pre¬ 
cipitate a fight with tbe Lords, with a view to 
the abolishment of the Upper House, are vastly 
disappointed and angry. Several nasty fam¬ 
ily' scandals among the “upper 10,000” have 
been ventilated in the law courts of late, and 
occupied au inordinate share of the cable¬ 
grams to American papers ....... Wolseley is 
still about Dougola, waiting the arrival of all 
bis forces, before starting for Khartoum. By 
latest advices, the Mahdi has only from 15,000 
to 20,000 troops about the latter place, and 
they' are dying at the rate of 100 a day of 
pestilence. Gordon is all right. The Egyptian 
debt is still causing a world of trouble to Eng¬ 
land. The latter is about to guarantee a loan 
of $25,000,000 at 3>^ per cent., for the purpose 
of paying off pressing charges aud construct 
ing and repairing irrigating canals. England 
is now treating with the other great Powers 
about the “sinking fund;” they still persist In 
their demand that this should not be suspend¬ 
ed, but are willing to give England time to 
formulate a financial policy. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 29. 
It is said that the exports of frozen mutton 
from New Zealand to great Britain this year 
will amount to more than half a million sheep, 
although the freight charges are very high. An 
effort is to be made to reduce the carrying 
rates, when it is exoected that the exports of 
frozen meats will reach large proportions..... 
.South Carolina farmers say that the 
drought in that State is not hurting anything 
now. for the melancholy reason that it has 
destroyed about everything that could be in¬ 
jured by the drving-up process.The 
grape crop has been fo profitable In the Hudson 
River valley this season that the acreage will 
be very largely increased next year. Peach 
orchards that have not done well will betaken 
up and villas substituted . Last Spring a 
body of Minnesota farmers organized an ex¬ 
change at Mankato, und since then have sold 
through it $109,000 worth of butter, at better 
average prices per pound than could have been 
realized in New York.The Agricultural 
Department denies t.lie statement that the 
civil-service reform law has not been applied 
to that. Department; and says the list of clerks 
has been classified as the law requires, and that 
no appointments have been made by Com¬ 
missioner Loring since the law went into 
operation.An egg-canning business is 
opened at St. Louis. The eggs are broken and 
dried, sealed up, and warranted to keep three 
years .Three grocers were arrested in 
New York on Wednesday for selling oleomar¬ 
garine .The farmers of California are 
receiving tbe lowest prico for their wheat 
they ever accepted, but they say they are not 
discouraged, nor will 50cents a bushel—which 
is perhaps a fair average there this season— 
result in reducing the area of wheat the com¬ 
ing year.The low price of sugar seems 
to have put a paralysis on the efforts to crys¬ 
tallize sorghum. Prof. Scovill, of Sterling, 
Kansas, realized 7,000 tons of cane from 1.200 
acres iu cultivation this year, and made some 
200,060 pounds of sugar und 1.000 gallous of 
sirup, for both of which they have u ready 
market, but at prices they cannot afford to 
sell for.The decrease in wheat acreage 
iu Missouri aud Kansas from the breadth 
sowed last year is 10 to 80 per cent.It 
is said that $5,000,000 of English capital has 
been invested in Montaua stock ranches dur¬ 
ing tbe current y ear. The State Board 
of Agriculture of Indiana reports a decrease 
of from 25 to 33per cent, in acreage of winter 
wheat. It is reported that the decrease in 
Kentucky will amouut to 30 per cent. - 
Apples are now shipped from Boston to Liver¬ 
pool for 62 cents per barrel, to London for 75 
cents and to Glasgow for $1 .Texas mo¬ 
hair is bringing a little over 40 cents per 
pound.The total number of poultry in 
Ireland is greater than iu Eugland, being 12,- 
746 048 in tbe former country against 11,384,- 
868 iu the latter, an excess of 391,160. 
Potatoes are selling for 90 cents a barrel at 
the steamboat dock In Troy. N. Y .The 
Chicago stock-yards were constructed some 
20 years ago, und tire the largest In the world. 
They are capable of accommodating 20,000 
cattle, 150,000 bogs, 10,000 sheep and 1.500 
horses. Seventeen different railroads center 
in tbe yards.J. N. Bruen, of Mon¬ 
mouth, Illinois, widely known throughout the 
West for his large interests in lands and cat¬ 
tle. died last Tuesday from a cold contracted 
in Chicago....And Russia, too, is to 
send butcher’s meat in refrigerating curs to 
London, according to the Warsaw Courier 
_There are 94 varieties of wine grapes 
grown iu California.Sugar 
is fed to tne cows on a large dairy farm 
near London, England, with good results. It 
induces tbe cattle to eat every mouthful of 
food in the manger, instead of leaving part, 
as cattle usually do. The sugar also improves 
the flavor of the milk. In Northern 
California tbe lollowing prices are paid for 
grapes: Mission and Malvoisie. $26 to $30 per 
tou; Reisbngs, $30; Chasselas. $28; Zmfan 
del and Burgundy, $26 to$30; Muscats, $16.. 
.There are now Jiving in Scotland about 
2.500 Aberdeen-Angus cattle, male aud female, 
and two-thirds as many—a few more than 
1,800—in this country.The opponents 
of the Scott Temperance Act in Canada, con¬ 
tend that the price of barley has been affect¬ 
ed by the cauvass for the Scott Act..... 
The potato crop in Iowa this year is esti¬ 
mated at 15,000,000 bushels-'lbe sacred 
cattle of India are represented in Texas, two 
lots having been imported into that State six 
or eight years ago. These Brahma cows, as 
they are called, are in great demand They 
are of a rich cream color, while the males 
have a prominent hump on the shoulder 
..At the recent Fat Stock show at Chicago, 
the largest hog weighed 875 pounds; another 
675 pounds. The ostriches at Anaheim, 
Cal., are reported to be in a thriving condi¬ 
tion, and the young ones, about forty, are 
growing nicely. One of the latter, four 
months old, was weighed the other day and 
lowered the scales at forty pounds. Tne in¬ 
cubators will be set going in a few days. 
A Splendid Dairy 
is one that yields its owner a good profit 
through the whole season. But he must sup- 
\ ply the cows with what they need in order for 
them to be able to keep up the>r product. 
When their butter gets light in color he must 
make it “gilt edged” bv usmg Wells, 
Richardson & Co’s.. improved Butter Color. 
It gives the golden color of June, and aids 
five cents per pound to the value of the butter. 
— Artv. 
Fur Broil "Iiial, A«thni’tIo and Pul¬ 
monary Complaint*), •* Brown's bronchial 
Troches'' tnanitest remarkable curative prop¬ 
erties. Sold only in boxes.—Adv, 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, November 29. 
The estimated yield of the crops of Maine 
this year is: Oats, 2,912 220 bushels; wheat, 
750.000 bushels; potatoes, 8,750.031 bushels. 
This shows au increase over last year of 150,- 
507 bushels of oats, 37 737 bushels of wheat, 
53.266 bushels of corn, and a decrease of 
238.000 bushels of potatoes. About 50 tons of 
hops are thought to have been raised in north¬ 
ern Aroostook. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the corn trade, says: “Young wheat 
could scarcely look stronger, and there is not 
an autumn-sown crop of any kind which has 
not an excepti nallygood growing appearance. 
Wheat, declined Is. per quarter in London 
on Monday, and prices have been weakening 
ever since. The sales of English wheat the 
past week were 68.568 quarters at 81. Yd. per 
quarter, agaiustbO,102 quarters at 40s. 5d. per 
quarter tbe corresponding week last, year. 
Flour declined 2s under pressure from Lon¬ 
don bakers, who have reduced the price of 
bread. Foreign wheat in London is gradual¬ 
ly sinking toward an unfathomable bottom, 
and how far yet before the bottom will be 
reached is a matter of pure speculation. Maize 
is firm, owing to scarcity. Oats are 6d. per 
quarter lower Tnere are no cargoes off 
coast. The prevailing east winds are keep¬ 
ing off expected arrivals. One cargo was sold 
and one withdrawn, leaving the market bare. 
For cargoes forwarded th°re is but little de¬ 
mand.” 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
PRODUCE AND BROVIblONS. 
New York. Saturday, November 29,1884. 
BREADSTUFF'S ADD PROVISIONS. AS Compared With 
cash prices one week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is 2^c 
higher; No. 3Red is unchanged Ungraded Red is 6c] 
lower. Uobn No. 3 is Sc. low er. 
URAJ*. Wheat-No. 2 lied. s3Q<»8tc No. 8 Red, 
76c: Ungraded l ea.clvaHto No i Northern Sprlug, 
SKe-No. 2 Red. JS > cinorr, SI‘| 8 tfcC. do. Jam) ry, 
a'-teac: d->. February, A % ino. March 
s-fhc do AprII, SOxSKrttc do. May. 9 Rye— 
Quilt and steady No. I in elevator, sold at 63(0: 
at,ate, ttec. Bakery In better demand, but held 
above tin''lews of buyers. tuts >cw York Xu. 2 
afloat, MiltitMt, und uv la e evator, do ing at 50c. 
In elevator Special December. No. 8 45,t 
• i>trainee mixed. 4 ungraded white 
Western, 4 c low mixed, 48c mu r. d, d u.ixc" West- 
, ru 44 a. '<ic, chiefly 4Ate««s*4i: yebow southern. sue. 
Optiou sales New Y ork No. 2. November, 50Qe; 
io, December, lib, - 48!4jc: do. January. llViUutec; 
do February, l Tvn46Vgc: do March, lYat-tesc do. 
May, I64g Atefyc. Ocit» New York *0 I, W- Ue, 351*C; 
Sew York No. i white .‘,i -w! toe. In levator: Now 
Y ork No. 3 White -d»» tlv New York No 2. S'.'Vtc, 
in store »nd elevator No. 2 Chicago, S344C. v o. 3 at 
X ‘ac ungraded wultr Western.S3«M8c: wnl'e State, 
34 ARtc: ungraded mixed Western, 29«iS c: theop- 
llon Rttiesot So veal be . 3 to. do Dec,moor, 32H 1 # 
do. January do May, 31c. 
r t.0CR. Kkkd *»p ntn f tout va cund Western 
uuoiau I,,. fi,83,*2tutor Inferior to choice-uper- 
11 no,of which Spring wheat at *2 35 - .75 an i Winter 
wheat at -i io„ 2.v,. t e dU ter for strictly choice; 
*3.,oin3 85 for poor to choice e»tra snipping brands 
od * lois and line* very inferior to cnol o winter 
whe«t, trade xtras a> * .•5 66 : Ml-uesota, rye 
mixture, u< *3.‘'J 9 l c clear, r ry interior to fancy, 
*.t 3.10 *4.11(1 Minnesota ‘'strate bt," Uifcilor to fancy, 
at * .30 • 4 f.5: paten', po t ! • very co i e.at|i. 5# 
$5.15. ■ nd very fancy. In odd teds, lip n *5.25; city 
mill extra In barrel* at *4.2» »4.85 for the west In¬ 
dies south America ut *4 .0*1.64 No 2 (or flue) 
a t $2.10*2.7 , for very P feri r to v. ry choice bruiids 
in s» ks and lur els of which cp ten win at at $2. 0 
in aa k> ’ nd win er at 3i.S m2 7» soi iup.rn 
Flock— <3 o.i 4.1' f r vo t lo v ry oud. r 1.4b j, 5 fib 
for very ged to strle'ly f ncy straight extras, % 00 
iu$5.3o for fair to verv cb ice patent end extras, 
lire K«.utm saii-s.it »34:>.3 9b to sup rflue -i te, 
latter for fanov; ehlctlr at *8LIJ . S.Ji Buckwheat 
FLOU- uuot ila'Ul.'iil 2.85 per llkllbv. Pki.d Quoted 
for 40 to • 0 lbs-,1 *V2« 14. to arrive ail ai mil' 30 lbs 
at *l»<iUjW: 100 lbs ni *13*15. Suarps at 
live feed t *ir„,t,'6. cons UkaL 8a k nn unirap r- 
tant: Quotations are: Brand vwine. rk.85aB.40. yellow 
vv.-oerti s.rsr bag meal at l-0'di.3df r flne 
white und line ye low, and j ii for toai se yellow 
Br.A's- The folio wing are the quotation-: .Marrows, 
at.Ti for new: mediums at *1,55 for n* • pea at 
* fo'.tU0 ror new; red kiotuy. *2.6.! for best new: 
turtle soup at $2 SW®2.*0; white kidney ut *2.55® 
*2.(0. 
Peak— Green arc quoted at 41.2bfornew. 
provisions -Pur* Mess *13.25: 85 bbis. family 
mess at *18. Quotations a-e $13* 3 50 for new 
mess; family tne-- ai 4i3;*13 u; clear back, *16® 
J7 5’i »'Xira prime at * 1 Dressed Hops Sule-at 
54*e. for bacon to 6c for light averages, and 6Q 656c- 
for pigs. CC'T MfcAts Pickled UcLles ii tt av, rage, 
at iteic;plckied hams !>4|c. City pickled shoulders 
quoted at 5H »6 c smoked (boulders at 7'w7V4e ; 
tackled hams, at -ik&lncs ‘tnok-o hams at 11teg,tee. 
Midm.ES bong and short clear, ba,r and half, for 
December an January deliveries at the West, at 
3,7;,o,. closing at ■ 75 • bio and 5.ouc. a-dc d. Bfek is 
quiet and unchanged. Quoted: bxtru India mess at 
*i5w24 ex r« me - at -li.50 s,i pocket at $'3 for 
barrels, and *'8,Hi In tierces- plate beef a( *12-^13; 
family, *13a*11. Bebf Ha«s -Quoted at *20. Lard 
— November option sales at 7 8i,.22c December 
option sales ut ;,I2 (7.15c. January option sales at 
7.15 a.75sc i' cbrufn v option sate-- at ?.!».* r.7«v. March 
oplion sales at 7 27 *;.*£■ April c.o.ied at 7.81c. bid. 
Cltv steam, 7.15 j 7 2ti* No. 1 city, «.-?4ve. Refined is 
quiet. Continent quoted at ; 60c for nearby dellv 
, r.v, nd 7.Sec for December and January. South 
American quoted at tAJiSe. 
Bt-tttK —The quotation? are: State, best, tubs and 
pail*, 2J,y til" do Clue, die: Western. Ii 48 >e. for be-t: 
State dairy ualf orkins tubs and palls, best extra. 
3K4.Ml*, for best: do. nrlme. 25 j-26c co, do. fair, 20(»21c; 
do! Welsh tubs extras, 25 2?c- prime 22'<(23c: do. 
do good 1 n22e do. firkins and tub?, flne, 24 25c: 
do. good, 21 3.28c, do. firkins. .-J.utelc for fine; Western 
imlta'ion rreauirry. eminent 2d«2ti. uo fair, 18c; 
Western dairy 90e. for best invoices, '7®ise for 
prime: W stern ractory fresh extras current make, 
12 ® 18 c. 
At the Mercantile Exchange the following tele¬ 
grams were received: From Boston—Market dul 
Northern creamery, 30®31c, From Philadelphia— 
Market dull, quoted extra creamery, 30c- western do, 
30c: York and Bradford. 20c. From Cincinnati—Mar¬ 
ket dull a: 20®25c; receipts 425: shipments 20. 
